Effects on Cardiopulmonary Parameters of Stepper Exercise in Patients After Myocardial Infarction

The purpose of the present study is to investigate stepper's effect on cardiopulmonary parameters and to determine whether or not there is a difference in the metabolic responses between the cardiac patients and healthy adults.
METHOD
25 healthy subjects (control group) and 30 patients with myocardial infaretion (MI) underwent "stepper" exercise after second month of infarction. The following parameters were measured before, at peak exercise and at the end of recovery period; heart rates, blood pressures minute ventilation (VE), ventilatory frequency (FR), tidal volume (TV), oxygen consumption per kg (VOJkg), ventilatory equivalant (VE-eq) and MET. Double product and oxygen-pulse were calculated.
RESULTS
Before exercise VOJkg and MET values were significantly higher in the MI group (pKeywords: Stepper exercise, myocardial infarction.